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patman99

Just remember, HD broadcasts are all in 720p, but if your parents intend to buy a blu-ray recorder in the future, then go for the Sony.

deanos

Sky broadcast at 1080i

BexTech

deanos wrote: »

Sky broadcast at 1080i

All UK HD broadcasts on satellite and cable are 1080i.

BexTech

patman99 wrote: »

RE; #8.

If Bush and Alba are trademarks of Argos, how come they are sold in my local Co-op and Sainsburys?.

As for proof, how about and interesting chat with one of the service managers at Philips that a learned freind of mine had after he had just rejected his third set.
He questioned this guy about the quality of the end-product having had 3 sets replaced by Comet within 9 weeks. He was told that 'All the big stores pre-order large batches of any new products long before their launch. Only trouble is, they want them in-store on the official luanch day. Sometimes we don't have time to fully-test each set as we have a deadline to meet. If they start to get a returns rate over 10%, they tend to sell enough tvs to make a good profit, then off-load the rest to Beon who then strip them down, bin the components with know problems, then re-build them as Alba,Bush, Ferguson, Goodmans and any number of other shops own-brands.'

So, basically speaking, you could walk in to a Sainsburys, buy a Bush tv, take-off the back, and find you have Philips lcd panel (made usually by Fuji) linked to a tuner from a toshiba.

I have a 'Goodmans' set that was sold as a base model with no teletext, I found purely by accident that it uses a Tatung tuner, and does have teletext built-in (the spec sheet also says is doesn't), so by trying a different remote, I've unlocked features that according to the maker don't exist.

I am quite surprised that Hitatchi no longer make their own sets, especially when you consider they are one of only 5 LCD panel makers in the world.

I had an old Bush TV (CRT) that had a Philips tube and Toshiba tuner, also had an old Philips TV that had an Orion Tube in it.

Comet used to (don't know if they still do) buy in their TVs without warranty and provided the warranty themselves, thus made the purchase cost to them cheaper as there was no come-back to the manufacturer if some of the TVs were faulty.